The future is now, and in the future you don’t have to click on a window to give it focus.
How many times have you wanted to scroll a window with your mousewheel, without bringing that window to the front? How many times have you wanted to type in a window without having it block another document you are viewing? If your answer to either of these questions is greater than zero, you are in luck.
xmouse is a utility that allows you to adjust the built in settings Windows provides for having window focus follow your mouse. This is helpful because it allows you to scroll and/or enter text in windows that are in the background! Neat!
That’s not all though! xmouse also will let you, if you choose, have any window you hover over get brought to the foreground. I have yet to conceive of any reasonable reason a sane human being would want to do this, but it’s there if you want it you sick bastards!
xmouse comes in two exciting flavours, regular and extra crispy. By that I mean there’s a command line version and a GUI version. The command line version is nice if you don’t have .NET or any of that business installed, otherwise I would just use the GUI.
Just run the app, apply the settings of your choice, and you’re done! No resident programs, no fuss, no muss. You can delete the application if you want afterwards, it’s done its job.
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xmouse (command line)
xmouseui (GUI)